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Published online 3 December 2008 | Nature 456, 559 (2008) | doi:10.1038/456559b

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Hawking plans long commute to Canada

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  • Nice to see that "the wheelchair guy" will keep busy!

    • 03 Dec, 2008
    • Posted by: David C Polk

  • Waterloo University has a long-time established reputation in mathematics with two prevalent faculty members, Cizak and Palek and previous visits from the late _ _ _ _ _. Hence this is a most appropriate and applauded event.

    • 03 Dec, 2008
    • Posted by: Victor Snieckus

  • Here is my utmost respect to a great physicist-cum-mathematician who continues to probe the universe with a piercing and penetrating vision, despite suffering from a degrading disease for decades. Stephen Hawking had proven the medical doctors wrong and his persistent endurance has motivated many scientists to persevere in times of hardships. A giant thinker with a fantastically beautiful mind, may his presence in Canada provide the impetus to further light up the national scientific research. (Tan Boon Tee)

    • 03 Dec, 2008
    • Posted by: B T Tan

  • very astonishing endeavor towards dipper analysis on matters pertaining to universe. Mabuhay ka doctor Hawking! (long live Dr. Hawking)may your unending passion to scientific knowledge be the ultimate catalyst to other theoretical physicists out there to further dissect the unsolved phenomena of universe-related matters.

    • 04 Dec, 2008
    • Posted by: Gregor Burdeos

  • I lack the ability to grasp the importance of the contributions by Stephen Hawking. Closer to home and on a more practical scale, experimental data leave little doubt that repulsive interactions between neutrons in the solar core is the heat source that sustains life here on planet Earth ["Attraction and repulsion of nucleons: Sources of stellar energy", Journal of Fusion Energy 19, 93-98 (2001); "Nuclear systematics: III. The source of solar luminosity", Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 252, 3-7 (2002); "Neutron repulsion confirmed as energy source", Journal of Fusion Energy 20, 197-201 (2003)]. In my opinion, this process merits serious study by scientists who want to return useful information to the people who made their scientific careers possible. With kind regards, Oliver K. Manuel, http://www.omatumr.com/papers.html, http://myprofile.cos.com/manuelo09

    • 05 Dec, 2008
    • Posted by: O M